Museums of Russia: Exhibition project “History in details. On the 300th anniversary of the Grand Peterhof Palace” in Peterhof

The exhibition project "History in details. On the 300^th anniversary of the Grand Peterhof Palace" opens at the Museum-Reserve "Peterhof" on November 3, 2015.

The exhibition project features a historical collection of decoration objects of the Grand Palace. Lamps, paintings, porcelain are presented as witnesses of the events that occurred three hundred years ago. They “saw” how the palace lived, found new owners, was filled with guests and emptied, was ruined and rebuilt again. Grand Peterhof Palace is considered one of the most elegant and spectacular. Before appearing today before the audience, every museum exhibit passed a difficult way, which is part of the history of Peterhof, the country's history.

Today, the Grand Palace has more than 3 000 exhibits. Of these, almost half comes from the historical collection. All of them had survived the imperial luxury of the Romanov dynasty, the turmoil of the revolution and the deprivation of the Great Patriotic War. Eight of them are the “protagonists” of the exhibition project.

The curators call the form of the action “an exhibition without exhibiting." All exhibits are left in their places. But in the enfilade, the unexpected objects appeared that invite the viewer to stop and look into the subject, "listen" to its story.

The project is focused on the individual visits to the Grand Palace.